[antirez]

I don't agree: the relational model is a pretty specific and ad-hoc idea that can be mathematically modeled using trivial math structures. For sure they could understand it in a second and recognize this as part of their math, but will their mainstream database systems be modeled after the same model? I doubt it.

Instead I would expect to see lists, hashes, trees, and most of our sorting algorithms in their code as well.